A newspaper serving the Pittsburgh Neighborhoods of Bloomfield, Garfield, Friendship, East Liberty, and Lawrenceville since 1975

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Free Diabetes Awareness Fair

A Diabetes Fair featuring risk assessments and foot screenings will be held from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Wintergarden of The Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 4800 Friendship Avenue, in Bloomfield. The fair is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Activities will include healthy cooking demonstrations, foot screenings by physicians in West Penn Hospital’s Foot and Ankle Residency Program, diabetes risk assessments, information on pre-diabetes, and interactive “conversation maps” that teach diabetes self-management.

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